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and Mary are sitting on the same throne and Christ, crowning his mother, faithful to show the book with the words that explain the entire mosaic <>. The models that had Jacopo Torriti refer to achieve the Coronation of the Virgin derive from France as witnessed similar scenes depicted on the portals of the cathedrals of Notre-Dame in Paris, Strasbourg and Sens.

More Roman are the scenes depicted at the foot of the core group, with putti-morini sailing the waters of the River Jordan!
It can be concluded visit to the Santa Maria Maggiore going on Loggia or admiring mosaics from the external facade of the church. Designed by Filippo Rusuti between the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, the episodes illustrate in the lower story of the miraculous snowfall summer linked to the construction of the church.
The legend of snowfall summer said that on the night of August 4, 358 the same time Virgin appeared in a dream to Pope Liberius and the rich and devout Giovanni ask them for the dedication of a basilica at the Rome where that night would have fallen snow. The following morning Giovanni went to the pontiff to tell of appearance of the Virgin and, together, went on the hill Cispio where the pope drew on the snow, the perimeter of the new church. In the basilica, still August 5 remembers the miracle of the snowfall: on the high altar during the celebration of Mass, are falling petals of white roses and jasmine.

Once the visit to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore you can go to the Basilica di Santa Prassede, whose access is secondary in the street of the same name.
Among the many valuable works of art that encompasses the church, detach the chapel of St. Zeno and mosaics of the apse and the arch triumphant achieved by the will of Pope Paschal I in the ninth century.
They are an expression of the rebirth of a school Roman mosaic that ended with the play a key role in the resumption of a religious Christian West.
But in the second chapel of the aisle right that preserves the most significant testimony of Byzantine art still visible in Rome.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Zeno, was built as a mausoleum Theodora, the mother of Pasquale I, and is called "Garden of Paradise" for the richness of decoration. Mosaics for complexity, creative imagination, wealth of symbols, color and density profusion of gold have no equal in Roman medieval.

From Santa Maria Maggiore through Via Carlo Alberto can be reached Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II by Romany familiarly

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